Thanks for sharing! She is fantastic! And I agreed with her. The good thing about technology (among many bad things) is that we can be open to the world and confront different ideas and maybe find out that humans are not so different after all and we all want the same things. When that happens is less possible that the elites can divided us and make us hate each other or support wars against others. In that regard I think the vast majority of Americans live in a shelter bubble and they don't know much about the rest of the world and because of that they have very wrong ideas about other people. You lived in Germany for almost a decade so you know what I am talking about. Now that is changing, people are waking up about the evil that their country had caused and why. The truth is always liberating, of course not always nice. When I travel and people criticized the States and asked me how I can live here I always clarified that there are two realities, one is the powers that control this country, and a totally different thing is the people and the people is fantastic ( for the most part) and the system used to be also good but since the 80's we have been losing freedom of speech, economic stability and safety. But the true is that the most of the American people don't know what their government are doing the most of the time or they had been convinced that whatever they do is justified. But I see this situation changing since 9/11 and double down with the Covid protocol. This has a cost and the cost is that we will become more cautious and not so trusty as before, but so be it, we cannot afford to cover the sun with a thumb any longer. The price will be deadly.
To call things required for LIFE "addictive" is, in a deeper analysis, absurd. Do we "overbreathe" to our detriment? Nah. Food is not itself addictive, though we DO have an internal reward system for sweet things and food fat and salt, I suppose you could say. Prior to the mass sugarization, and worse, the HFCS-ization, of the culture, sweets in actual foods held important nutrients; ditto fat and salt. (Unironic that these are misunderstood and therefor demonized.)
Otherwise everything we "know" about eating and weight is basically backward. The fattest people are invariably the most-starved; no one gets to 400 pounds without prior semi-starvation, it being natural famine or the famine demanded of the visibly fat, aka weight-loss dieting. And actual science has found that people of all sizes eat similarly: no more and no differently! (It's called "The Obesity Paradox.") So what do we as a culture do? We demand the visibly fat restrict caloric intake to atone. We label the fat folk: "addicted" and "lacking self-control" and "lazy." We feed our own insecurities by focusing on the adipose-blessed, with absolutely no care for the consequences. Girls fed the AI-ideal now (again) starve their bodies in attempted submission to a totally fake ideal. Former superstar athletes hawk injectable weight-loss gimmicks regardless of the health costs -- to themselves and to those they "inspire." And the culture sucks it up and spews it out as if it were absolute truth, not dangerous lies.
Critical thinking, the ability to be different, nourishing and nurturing one's own blessed body, and inquiry as to proven reality -- despite its flying in the face of bias -- would all help.
I put "food addiction" in quotes for a lack of a better phrase. I was born in 1951 and never saw school age kids the size of some that I see now almost daily. Even the kids we teased when I was young for being fat aren't as big.
In 2000 I took a new position within the same company at a different building. In 2005 I took another position back in my original work location. The first day I noticed how much weight the people that I hadn't seen in 5 years had gained. The folks I worked with probably slowly gained weight as well, but because I saw them 5 days a week I didn't notice. If something in the culture changed I didn't notice.
Seeing something is one thing. I was objecting to correlating something tangible to its apparent (presumed? propagandized?) cause.
Some fairly random info: the epidemic of women dieting, even in the decades before Twiggy's hold on the culture's psyche, created a generation fatter than their mothers. (Epigenetics, I think, is at play here.) Now add in industrial "food" which took a page from Big Tobacco to encourage intake and then dropped nutrition into the basement in favor of "mouthfeel" and taste sensation while adding seed oils .... So yes, kids whose mothers also dieted (like their own mothers had), and owing to the loss of real wages from the mid-70s on were now often working more than one job and thus had no time for regular home-cooked meals, and the relentless propaganda conflating fast-garbage-food with love and fun ... got fatter. We've also been fairly groomed to see fat bodies as sus, ugly, even immoral; add to that the dropping of the "obese" category qualifying weights which increased the number of "obese" people without quite saying why,not clearly, but emphasizing, always, the dramatic increase.
Still, nothing in there even suggests "addiction." Make more sense?
I've lost the plot in this conversation. At the beginning I was trying to make the point that people's food consumption drive seems to be stronger than people's fear of bad health outcomes from it's consumption.
I eat broccoli, kale, and spinach, but only with added fats like olive oil and cheese. Or, with oil and fruits slices or berries. Basically salad dressing. The plain vegetables don't taste good on their own.
Are you serious? Maybe it's more obvious for females in western culture. No, we are NOT allowed to feel at home in our skin, comfortable there (here), and we are especially discouraged from listening to and <gasp!> trusting our bodies! Is this news?
I was once at a sewing seminar where a woman was presenting on How to Dress Like a Million When You Look Like Roseanne. Huge room was packed, 250 minimum. I was missing my infant son while standing against the back wall, making goo-goo eyes at the baby in the stroller beside me when the leader asked a question. I raised my hand and suddenly the room went stone silent.
She'd queried, "Who in this room feels completely comfortable with her body?" Only my hand went up. Now I was a seasoned body-image activist, a FAT ACTIVIST, and the area had a number of other women who also were active in that arena. Guess they didn't hit sewing conferences. Anyway, the presenter said that in all her seminars, and certainly in the 500 women she'd spoken to that day, no woman had ever raised her hand. So, are you still asking, "What's stopping" women, people more generally, from listening to their bodies? I can vouch for women's side of this, and having talked with men, while there is more freedom, it's limited to sleep, sex, and anger. Far more than we get, but it's still not enough.
Bulimia is a process addiction in a strong sense. Many have discovered that once the mental critical tape loop of guilt is shut down (and the starved fat cells are re-fed), the starve-binge-purge cycle breaks down fairly easily. If the culture would stop feeding the fear of fat/ness, it'd be awesome! But the medical-industrial complex would lose MUCH money, so it's moot.
Bulimia is not categorized as an "addiction", but as an "eating disorder".
There are psychological predispositions, hurts, fears and body-image distortions in place. It is an extremely hard and erosive load for bulemic girls to carry, and most of them cannot bear to look at it as such, either.
Physical addiction to opioids comes from tolerance to them being there in high doses, so that there are symptoms of diarrhea, shivering, congestion and runny nose, sleeplessness and dysphoria if they are stopped.
With sedatives the withdrawal can be fatal, also with alcohol.
The body adapts to the sustance, and has problems without it. That is physical addiction.
There are addictions to smartphones, too, but withdrawal is a non-fatal transition.
Thanks but that's not the cause. Why do people take addictive drugs in the first place? They go to them to escape I would imagine, because life is too dreadful. They see the real reality and can't cope. Our society is totally warped, that's something we really need to admit and address.
Indeed, addiction is very powerful, however I assert that addiction is, at it's foundation, a great fear of being unable to face reality, live up to the truth, and come to terms with criticism and shortcomings. Drug addicts, for example, cannot face life without a fix... they fear, even dread being clean. Jesus is the way out of addiction and fear. Here is a song, sung by the authors, and their group of vocalists, about the subject of fear, and how Jesus has fixed the problem, for all. Please, enjoy, "Because He Lives", by Bill and Gloria Gaither.
Let me suggest that even this idea of a sole creator is an addiction, an addiction to childish comfort. What if there is no god? That means there is no satan. So what if they are merely stories cooked up by a bunch of men who weren't connected to mother earth?
You can know your own compassionate spiritual nature. That is more important than intellectual definitions of "God", which cannot be universally agreed upon.
The better you know your own soul, the better you will know other souls, including The Divine.
So you're saying these stories may be true? How can they be true? How can only half of the human brain trust determine what is true, and the most violent sex at that? Do you think Adam and Eve is a true story? Do you believe that woman came from a rib? What good was it for Jesus to die for us when he has all the power to make our lives sing? Why always the talk of death, battles, betrayals etc and not of beauty and beautiful abundance that nature provides? Why no women's stories or very very few? Like women just aren't part of humanity? If they told stories about ribs and the first humans, surely the rest of it must come into question.
The question is what causes them to be addicted? Addiction is certainly a powerful force, but the alcoholic's greatest fear is not getting to drink that day. Everything in their lives is centered on drinking. The fear of losing out on a drink drives the alcoholic. And, the same could be said for drugs.
I must say, then, that in our imperfect world, fear is the number one driver, next to greed. And btw, greed is an addiction and drives the beginning of dependent behavior.
Our money system is designed to instill scarcity thinking, artificially so. Because there actually is plenty. The money actually distorts the brain by putting us into a state of existential threat - if we don't have the money, we lose the roof over our heads, we lose our food tokens. It's a brilliant psyop - centrally-issued usury.
The greatest fear is fear of beyond life, fear of death. But maybe we can die when we choose to and be in optimal health the whole way through but they have feared us by talking about insulting a god or succumbing to the devil. These are personalisations of energies which we all contain and can direct within us. The "god/devil" are the energies that live within us and direct us if we are unaware. We have been trained to think they are outside of us. So what are we really? I think we are like gods, though I hesitate to use that metaphor. And these energies have been indoctrinated into us to weaken us and allow others to control us.
John, everything said here is summed up in the first few chapters of the Bible. The opposer of truth and love used fear and greed to lure the first couple into sin, or in other words, deviation from the standards that God instituted.
Deviating from the path that was set by God is sin, and as Christ said, sin leads to death.
At this time of year, it's important to remember that Christ offered his perfect life as a ransom payment to purchase humanity from the deviation the first couple passed down to us. Our inclination is to sin. But because of that ransom payment, we have a new hope of living a life as God has determined from the beginning. A life of god-like love that is reflected by everyone who has abandoned the desire to deviate from God's standards.
That only suggests that we should be obedient. That whole thing is merely someone's story we must remember. It's not the only story. It is the story that has been provided solely by the male mind and males think very differently to female minds because we each have very different biological functions. Men to spread their seed, which makes men want things urgently, immediately. Women to nurture the next generation which makes women think long-term. Together we can build paradise. Not speaking sexually here, but as brothers and sisters - peers, sovereigns.
And Christians are not responsible for the satanic atomic bombs dropped on noncombatant Christians in Japan? Christians are not responsible for the indigenous people genocide? That was Jews of course. It was the jews who started ww1, ww2, invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, bombed Yugoslavia, subverted the democratic government of Mosaddegh etc etc, and used Christian blood in matza. All Jews. All of them. And poor innocent Christians are just sooo innocent and pure...and that is going on for two thousand years. Maybe its time to look in the mirror.
Maybe you meant to say greedy global bankers who use fear & religion as divide and conquer warfare propagation. It works real well on the naive, gullible and ignorant racist ones that lack intellect. That's why it's continued today.
Simply excellent, John Leake. The lovely lady has verbalized the gospel in layman's terms clearly, humbly, and effectively. Laura Aboli is a winner, and will be rewarded for her testimony when Jesus comes to judge the world. Thank you, John Leake, for this priceless, public service. I have included a link here to the hit song, "Because He Lives", by Bill and Gloria Gaither. It is quite appropriate, after hearing Laura Aboli speak, to listen to this wonderful piece of music, witness the sincerity of the folks singing it, many of whom have gone to the other side already. I have personally met some of them. Please enjoy. Thanks again, John Leake.
Of course everyone can believe what they want, but don't you ever wonder about this god thing? Do you think that could be that that was also indoctrinated into us? How else could it be? Can we consider other scenarios?
Laura says that the only path out of fear is self-realisation and higher awareness. Yes (John 8:32) "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
But the word "truth" is plural, not singular, and it's only the truth you KNOW that will set you free
The talk was "off" in this respect. Perhaps Laura Aboli is pussy-footing around the whole truth, in order to be "inclusive" and keep the New Age spirituality groups happy? Perhaps she is scared to lay it out as scripture does?
When we commit to a relationship with Jesus, our spirit is renewed, and we renew our own minds by attending the school of the Holy Spirit, who over time, teaches us to know how much God loves us, and His nature, character and promises to us. There is a very real sense where, if we REALLY believe, then God the father, son and holy spirit come to live inside us. (John chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17), and THAT was the whole point of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross and the attendant ripping of the double curtain in the temple, which said in principle, "Through me alone, you can now BE the temple of the Holy Spirit, with a direct one-to-one direct line of communication with God and the holy spirit".
Scripture makes it clear that courage to face fear, doesn't come from SELF-realisation, or "higher awareness", but from a full-time relationship with God akin to Psalm 91 ("abiding" in the relationship, not visiting when it suits) and from fully understanding the roadblocks described in the parable of the sower (Matthew chapter 13) which underpins what hinders us, and can derail our functioning in the kingdom of God.
It is when our personal relationship with God is on solid ground, that the truth we know, sets us free, so that we have the courage to reject weaponised fear.
One of the many truths which sets us free, is 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control]."
God the holy spirit et all, that's to keep you trying to please someone outside of yourself. It would behoove us to find this love amongst our own fellows. That's most likely how we tackle this blight.
The whole point of Jesus was to love each other, to the point you would give your life for each other. Being the temple of the Holy spirit isn't about "pleasing" someone outside of me, because as I said, the Holy Spirit is inside of me. Seeing things through God's eyes, and hearing God's voice inside us, gives us greater insight, and an extra "intelligence" toolkit inside us.
If we could tackle this blight by collectively leaving God out of it, we would have already done so.
John, really???? have we not heard these platitudes ad infinitum..Whose truth, whose realization, whose rigtheousness, whose love ????? this takes me back to the 60's...and look where that led us to this point where we repeat these same bromides. Is it really fear?? was it fear that led oountless souls to take the covid shot, or simply agreeableness, the indefatible social element that knows no end. Is it right to fear Bibi Trump, and Bibi and where that will lead us?
In some sense I write as the devil's advocate (how ironic) sensing the truths she outlines are universal, but not so temporal. thanks.
''He betrayed this country!'' Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone at a rally of Tennessee Democrats here in a stuffy hotel ballroom. ''He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place.''
The speech had several hundred Democrats roaring their approval for Mr. Gore, the party's 2000 standard-bearer."
And Fear:
"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."
- FDR, 1933 Inaugural Address
Bearing Burden, Hardship, for Liberty:
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."
- JFK, 1961 Inaugural Address
All the while US, UK and global leaders having just defeated totalitarianism that rode in on the back of ginned-up fear in Europe for purposes of Fascistic public-private partnership "efficiency" and Communistic all-one state "efficiency" yearning for efficiency so much they declared it:
'Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
"Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage. “Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery...We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Fear and Freedom do not go together. And for those who favor "efficiency" over freedom their favorite go-to is Fear. The only way free people ever willingly give up their Freedom.
And health, illness, disease, death, are the most fearful thing humans face. And as such are the best conduit for totalitarians who loath "inefficient freedom" to employ the "Logic of Disease Politics." as this book describes was employed in China under Mao:
Rural Health Care Delivery
Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics
Fear of disease: How to fundamentally transform a nation of free nationalists into collectivist authoritarians. Saving just one grandma at a time. Or something like t hat.
Additionally, fear is a tool that the Neocons use to launch their evil -minded schemes. Every war, I mean every single war since the war of 1812, has used fear to launch the Neocons' schemes. Yes, even the two world wars that our government dragged us into, the tool of fear was used with perfection. America's only necessary war was in 1812; no wars have been necessary since. Staying out of unnecessary wars was one of the first principles of the American founding. Yet we deviated from that principle within a few decades. Now, Congress is never allowed to declare war; the Neocons detached that mechanism decades ago. Every conflict is a police action, allowing Neocons to wage war at any time.
Wars would not occur if society believed it wrong to kill another of our kind intentionally. They just wouldn't happen. The terrain wouldn't foster them. But look how easily we talk about war, we even have video games that hunt humans, and children play them. And nobody seems to mind. That's what enables war and evil.
"...fear is a tool that the PinkoCommies use to launch the PinkoCommies schemes...the PinkoCommies police actions, allowing PinkoCommies to wage war at any time."
Is what you sound like. Your "team" flag colors flying high in your comment. Your "team" hatred of team "Neocons" make you easy to keep you on your own team's totalitarian impulses. Pssst - the takeaway from John Leake's piece is that it's our tribal instincts that get us into trouble. Our own chosen "tribes" lead us into the greatest peril. We're pretty good at seeing our adversaries, the other "tribe" for what they are, as you've identified (correctly) "Neocons" as one of the tribes leading us into great peril. But we're weakest at identifying our own "tribe" does, following it into great peril, simply because we trust them more. And the powers that be know this. And wield our tribal team instincts against us expertly.
No, you sound like you're fixated on old tropes. Like above you cited something from the NYT. I didn't read it because anyone who knows anything wouldn't cite that rag.
Oh. Is it true? Guess where I heard the audio of Gore saying that when he said it, and for years after? Rush Limbaugh. I guess Rush was a purveyor of "rag" information?
Or, alternative hypothesis: you're just a ragging old hag? Who can kiss my ass.
The bloody dumb CU Next Tuesday Jew-hating Nazi's are out tonight.
Yeah. Just Neocons. No other authoritarian/totalitarian/monarchical/oligarchical/socialist/communist/fascist governing model or ideology. Just Neocons.
Its not clear why this cultivated woman highlights that the word Satan(shatan) in Hebrew means...why associate jews/hebrews and satan. It' really unfortunate. Everyone knows what satan is. Why, again, connecti it to the Hebrew language.
You could ask her however do you realize that Zionists (if not Jews per se) do the most evil in the world? They run the money system for one thing, own the media mostly, and weapons companies. They were kicked out of over 100 countries. Perhaps she's touching on something we all ought to speak about but can't because it's "anti septic".
I think that she was just making a point that the word, Satan, does come from the Hebrew language. And she she says: it means opposer or adversary. That was a big part of her speech: How the adversary/opposer is always attempting to keep up in slavery, fear, etc.
Maybe she is hinting that Satan is working through the Jews. Maybe that's what she believes. I certainly have heard people, especially those who believe the Israelis were responsible for 911, say that before. So many theories floating around ... I don't know what to believe anymore.
The Jews are not the problem. The problem is they take advantage of our gullibility and they're good at it. We have to become more questioning and courageous to speak the uncomfortable truths. But we don't because we don't want to appear against a race when speaking out doesn't mean we are against them, it means we detect patterns.
Thanks for sharing! She is fantastic! And I agreed with her. The good thing about technology (among many bad things) is that we can be open to the world and confront different ideas and maybe find out that humans are not so different after all and we all want the same things. When that happens is less possible that the elites can divided us and make us hate each other or support wars against others. In that regard I think the vast majority of Americans live in a shelter bubble and they don't know much about the rest of the world and because of that they have very wrong ideas about other people. You lived in Germany for almost a decade so you know what I am talking about. Now that is changing, people are waking up about the evil that their country had caused and why. The truth is always liberating, of course not always nice. When I travel and people criticized the States and asked me how I can live here I always clarified that there are two realities, one is the powers that control this country, and a totally different thing is the people and the people is fantastic ( for the most part) and the system used to be also good but since the 80's we have been losing freedom of speech, economic stability and safety. But the true is that the most of the American people don't know what their government are doing the most of the time or they had been convinced that whatever they do is justified. But I see this situation changing since 9/11 and double down with the Covid protocol. This has a cost and the cost is that we will become more cautious and not so trusty as before, but so be it, we cannot afford to cover the sun with a thumb any longer. The price will be deadly.
From my observations in life I would assert that addiction is a more powerful weapon of control than fear.
A lot of people are addicted to situations and imagery that induce fear!
And there is the fear of running out, that junkies have.
I considered all of that before commenting.
People who have something, in general, are more averse to giving it up, than even if they might gain twice as much. It is settings of the organism
At some point in fear people may flip to fighting, but you just don't see that with addicts who have a little of what they need...
I'm likely way out of my league here, but "food addiction" seems to be stronger than the fear of bad health outcomes for many people.
To call things required for LIFE "addictive" is, in a deeper analysis, absurd. Do we "overbreathe" to our detriment? Nah. Food is not itself addictive, though we DO have an internal reward system for sweet things and food fat and salt, I suppose you could say. Prior to the mass sugarization, and worse, the HFCS-ization, of the culture, sweets in actual foods held important nutrients; ditto fat and salt. (Unironic that these are misunderstood and therefor demonized.)
Otherwise everything we "know" about eating and weight is basically backward. The fattest people are invariably the most-starved; no one gets to 400 pounds without prior semi-starvation, it being natural famine or the famine demanded of the visibly fat, aka weight-loss dieting. And actual science has found that people of all sizes eat similarly: no more and no differently! (It's called "The Obesity Paradox.") So what do we as a culture do? We demand the visibly fat restrict caloric intake to atone. We label the fat folk: "addicted" and "lacking self-control" and "lazy." We feed our own insecurities by focusing on the adipose-blessed, with absolutely no care for the consequences. Girls fed the AI-ideal now (again) starve their bodies in attempted submission to a totally fake ideal. Former superstar athletes hawk injectable weight-loss gimmicks regardless of the health costs -- to themselves and to those they "inspire." And the culture sucks it up and spews it out as if it were absolute truth, not dangerous lies.
Critical thinking, the ability to be different, nourishing and nurturing one's own blessed body, and inquiry as to proven reality -- despite its flying in the face of bias -- would all help.
I put "food addiction" in quotes for a lack of a better phrase. I was born in 1951 and never saw school age kids the size of some that I see now almost daily. Even the kids we teased when I was young for being fat aren't as big.
In 2000 I took a new position within the same company at a different building. In 2005 I took another position back in my original work location. The first day I noticed how much weight the people that I hadn't seen in 5 years had gained. The folks I worked with probably slowly gained weight as well, but because I saw them 5 days a week I didn't notice. If something in the culture changed I didn't notice.
Seeing something is one thing. I was objecting to correlating something tangible to its apparent (presumed? propagandized?) cause.
Some fairly random info: the epidemic of women dieting, even in the decades before Twiggy's hold on the culture's psyche, created a generation fatter than their mothers. (Epigenetics, I think, is at play here.) Now add in industrial "food" which took a page from Big Tobacco to encourage intake and then dropped nutrition into the basement in favor of "mouthfeel" and taste sensation while adding seed oils .... So yes, kids whose mothers also dieted (like their own mothers had), and owing to the loss of real wages from the mid-70s on were now often working more than one job and thus had no time for regular home-cooked meals, and the relentless propaganda conflating fast-garbage-food with love and fun ... got fatter. We've also been fairly groomed to see fat bodies as sus, ugly, even immoral; add to that the dropping of the "obese" category qualifying weights which increased the number of "obese" people without quite saying why,not clearly, but emphasizing, always, the dramatic increase.
Still, nothing in there even suggests "addiction." Make more sense?
I've lost the plot in this conversation. At the beginning I was trying to make the point that people's food consumption drive seems to be stronger than people's fear of bad health outcomes from it's consumption.
They fear looking different to the norm that they see on television and on ads.
I don't think commercials could make people crave broccoli, kale, spinach etc...
They don't light up the brain the way the combination of flour, sugar, salt, and fat do.
If we are allowed to feel and to connect with our bodies, they actually do!
"allowed"? What's stopping us?
I eat broccoli, kale, and spinach, but only with added fats like olive oil and cheese. Or, with oil and fruits slices or berries. Basically salad dressing. The plain vegetables don't taste good on their own.
Are you serious? Maybe it's more obvious for females in western culture. No, we are NOT allowed to feel at home in our skin, comfortable there (here), and we are especially discouraged from listening to and <gasp!> trusting our bodies! Is this news?
I was once at a sewing seminar where a woman was presenting on How to Dress Like a Million When You Look Like Roseanne. Huge room was packed, 250 minimum. I was missing my infant son while standing against the back wall, making goo-goo eyes at the baby in the stroller beside me when the leader asked a question. I raised my hand and suddenly the room went stone silent.
She'd queried, "Who in this room feels completely comfortable with her body?" Only my hand went up. Now I was a seasoned body-image activist, a FAT ACTIVIST, and the area had a number of other women who also were active in that arena. Guess they didn't hit sewing conferences. Anyway, the presenter said that in all her seminars, and certainly in the 500 women she'd spoken to that day, no woman had ever raised her hand. So, are you still asking, "What's stopping" women, people more generally, from listening to their bodies? I can vouch for women's side of this, and having talked with men, while there is more freedom, it's limited to sleep, sex, and anger. Far more than we get, but it's still not enough.
Many addictions are created by fear. Many people are addicted to fear. It is a vicious circle.
Are addictions created by fear alone?
Addiction implies both pleasure from the addictive substance or activity and also pain when it is removed.
People may have habits of fear. Many people are naturally fearful, right? Many people have been hurt or tortured in various ways by other people.
Hi John, I agree with your comment. The topic is broad. Hence in my comment, I stated 'many' as to indicate one of various angles possible.
Bulimia is a process addiction in a strong sense. Many have discovered that once the mental critical tape loop of guilt is shut down (and the starved fat cells are re-fed), the starve-binge-purge cycle breaks down fairly easily. If the culture would stop feeding the fear of fat/ness, it'd be awesome! But the medical-industrial complex would lose MUCH money, so it's moot.
Bulimia is not categorized as an "addiction", but as an "eating disorder".
There are psychological predispositions, hurts, fears and body-image distortions in place. It is an extremely hard and erosive load for bulemic girls to carry, and most of them cannot bear to look at it as such, either.
I would say that addiction is an attempt at getting away from fear.
Do you have addictions? Do you recall a first step of trying something new?
Have you broken away from any addictions?
What did it take? How long?
Addiction comes from something. What do you suppose it could be? It is not the cause but the result of something.
Physical addiction to opioids comes from tolerance to them being there in high doses, so that there are symptoms of diarrhea, shivering, congestion and runny nose, sleeplessness and dysphoria if they are stopped.
With sedatives the withdrawal can be fatal, also with alcohol.
The body adapts to the sustance, and has problems without it. That is physical addiction.
There are addictions to smartphones, too, but withdrawal is a non-fatal transition.
;-}
Thanks but that's not the cause. Why do people take addictive drugs in the first place? They go to them to escape I would imagine, because life is too dreadful. They see the real reality and can't cope. Our society is totally warped, that's something we really need to admit and address.
I fear that you are taking this at a level past what drives people to the first addictive drug, which is to feel good.
The most common/usual "gateway drug" is cigarettes.
Do you remember being 13?
"What were once vices are now habits" was the name of a Doobie Brothers album
"Feeling good, feeling good, all the money in the world spent on feeling good" Ry Cooder
Think about the depth of that statement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTPieppbUGk
Unusually good guitarist with a distinct style, too...
Indeed, addiction is very powerful, however I assert that addiction is, at it's foundation, a great fear of being unable to face reality, live up to the truth, and come to terms with criticism and shortcomings. Drug addicts, for example, cannot face life without a fix... they fear, even dread being clean. Jesus is the way out of addiction and fear. Here is a song, sung by the authors, and their group of vocalists, about the subject of fear, and how Jesus has fixed the problem, for all. Please, enjoy, "Because He Lives", by Bill and Gloria Gaither.
https://ca.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=hymn+Because+He+lives%2Bgaithers&type=E210CA885G0#id=1&vid=7b65aa7e7bb45dac6aefd566959a6b24&action=cl
Let me suggest that even this idea of a sole creator is an addiction, an addiction to childish comfort. What if there is no god? That means there is no satan. So what if they are merely stories cooked up by a bunch of men who weren't connected to mother earth?
You can know your own compassionate spiritual nature. That is more important than intellectual definitions of "God", which cannot be universally agreed upon.
The better you know your own soul, the better you will know other souls, including The Divine.
And what if they are not "merely stories."
So you're saying these stories may be true? How can they be true? How can only half of the human brain trust determine what is true, and the most violent sex at that? Do you think Adam and Eve is a true story? Do you believe that woman came from a rib? What good was it for Jesus to die for us when he has all the power to make our lives sing? Why always the talk of death, battles, betrayals etc and not of beauty and beautiful abundance that nature provides? Why no women's stories or very very few? Like women just aren't part of humanity? If they told stories about ribs and the first humans, surely the rest of it must come into question.
I think that's it, the inability to face life. Life is too brutal for them as it is for all of us. But not all of us resort to drugs.
The question is what causes them to be addicted? Addiction is certainly a powerful force, but the alcoholic's greatest fear is not getting to drink that day. Everything in their lives is centered on drinking. The fear of losing out on a drink drives the alcoholic. And, the same could be said for drugs.
I must say, then, that in our imperfect world, fear is the number one driver, next to greed. And btw, greed is an addiction and drives the beginning of dependent behavior.
Our money system is designed to instill scarcity thinking, artificially so. Because there actually is plenty. The money actually distorts the brain by putting us into a state of existential threat - if we don't have the money, we lose the roof over our heads, we lose our food tokens. It's a brilliant psyop - centrally-issued usury.
Excellent! Every church and place of worship should show this video. Our religious leaders in my view have succumbed to fear.
The greatest fear is fear of beyond life, fear of death. But maybe we can die when we choose to and be in optimal health the whole way through but they have feared us by talking about insulting a god or succumbing to the devil. These are personalisations of energies which we all contain and can direct within us. The "god/devil" are the energies that live within us and direct us if we are unaware. We have been trained to think they are outside of us. So what are we really? I think we are like gods, though I hesitate to use that metaphor. And these energies have been indoctrinated into us to weaken us and allow others to control us.
John, everything said here is summed up in the first few chapters of the Bible. The opposer of truth and love used fear and greed to lure the first couple into sin, or in other words, deviation from the standards that God instituted.
Deviating from the path that was set by God is sin, and as Christ said, sin leads to death.
At this time of year, it's important to remember that Christ offered his perfect life as a ransom payment to purchase humanity from the deviation the first couple passed down to us. Our inclination is to sin. But because of that ransom payment, we have a new hope of living a life as God has determined from the beginning. A life of god-like love that is reflected by everyone who has abandoned the desire to deviate from God's standards.
That only suggests that we should be obedient. That whole thing is merely someone's story we must remember. It's not the only story. It is the story that has been provided solely by the male mind and males think very differently to female minds because we each have very different biological functions. Men to spread their seed, which makes men want things urgently, immediately. Women to nurture the next generation which makes women think long-term. Together we can build paradise. Not speaking sexually here, but as brothers and sisters - peers, sovereigns.
So True John - Thank you! Divine Spiritual Warriors Must Be Fearless in the Midst of Darkness!
It was a very good talk!
3/28/26
After 9/11 I decided that I would not be afraid of whatever is thrown at us.
The truth will set you free, so finding out the truth of 9/11 sets me free, as ugly as it is to realize the evil men can be capable of.
I had to know why 9/11 happened and have searched for that truth ever since.
The truth about 9/11 is the same truth about so many other evil acts we have experienced before and after. Understanding that truth sets me free.
Fear, the common denominator in the global control system
And Christians are not responsible for the satanic atomic bombs dropped on noncombatant Christians in Japan? Christians are not responsible for the indigenous people genocide? That was Jews of course. It was the jews who started ww1, ww2, invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, bombed Yugoslavia, subverted the democratic government of Mosaddegh etc etc, and used Christian blood in matza. All Jews. All of them. And poor innocent Christians are just sooo innocent and pure...and that is going on for two thousand years. Maybe its time to look in the mirror.
Maybe you meant to say greedy global bankers who use fear & religion as divide and conquer warfare propagation. It works real well on the naive, gullible and ignorant racist ones that lack intellect. That's why it's continued today.
https://WHOtoSTOP.org
Simply excellent, John Leake. The lovely lady has verbalized the gospel in layman's terms clearly, humbly, and effectively. Laura Aboli is a winner, and will be rewarded for her testimony when Jesus comes to judge the world. Thank you, John Leake, for this priceless, public service. I have included a link here to the hit song, "Because He Lives", by Bill and Gloria Gaither. It is quite appropriate, after hearing Laura Aboli speak, to listen to this wonderful piece of music, witness the sincerity of the folks singing it, many of whom have gone to the other side already. I have personally met some of them. Please enjoy. Thanks again, John Leake.
https://ca.video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=hymn+Because+He+lives%2Bgaithers&type=E210CA885G0#id=1&vid=7b65aa7e7bb45dac6aefd566959a6b24&action=cl
Of course everyone can believe what they want, but don't you ever wonder about this god thing? Do you think that could be that that was also indoctrinated into us? How else could it be? Can we consider other scenarios?
Exactly what I needed to hear!
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Laura says that the only path out of fear is self-realisation and higher awareness. Yes (John 8:32) "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
But the word "truth" is plural, not singular, and it's only the truth you KNOW that will set you free
The talk was "off" in this respect. Perhaps Laura Aboli is pussy-footing around the whole truth, in order to be "inclusive" and keep the New Age spirituality groups happy? Perhaps she is scared to lay it out as scripture does?
When we commit to a relationship with Jesus, our spirit is renewed, and we renew our own minds by attending the school of the Holy Spirit, who over time, teaches us to know how much God loves us, and His nature, character and promises to us. There is a very real sense where, if we REALLY believe, then God the father, son and holy spirit come to live inside us. (John chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17), and THAT was the whole point of Jesus's sacrifice on the cross and the attendant ripping of the double curtain in the temple, which said in principle, "Through me alone, you can now BE the temple of the Holy Spirit, with a direct one-to-one direct line of communication with God and the holy spirit".
Scripture makes it clear that courage to face fear, doesn't come from SELF-realisation, or "higher awareness", but from a full-time relationship with God akin to Psalm 91 ("abiding" in the relationship, not visiting when it suits) and from fully understanding the roadblocks described in the parable of the sower (Matthew chapter 13) which underpins what hinders us, and can derail our functioning in the kingdom of God.
It is when our personal relationship with God is on solid ground, that the truth we know, sets us free, so that we have the courage to reject weaponised fear.
One of the many truths which sets us free, is 2 Timothy 1:7 "For God did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear, but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of sound judgment and personal discipline [abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control]."
God the holy spirit et all, that's to keep you trying to please someone outside of yourself. It would behoove us to find this love amongst our own fellows. That's most likely how we tackle this blight.
The whole point of Jesus was to love each other, to the point you would give your life for each other. Being the temple of the Holy spirit isn't about "pleasing" someone outside of me, because as I said, the Holy Spirit is inside of me. Seeing things through God's eyes, and hearing God's voice inside us, gives us greater insight, and an extra "intelligence" toolkit inside us.
If we could tackle this blight by collectively leaving God out of it, we would have already done so.
John, really???? have we not heard these platitudes ad infinitum..Whose truth, whose realization, whose rigtheousness, whose love ????? this takes me back to the 60's...and look where that led us to this point where we repeat these same bromides. Is it really fear?? was it fear that led oountless souls to take the covid shot, or simply agreeableness, the indefatible social element that knows no end. Is it right to fear Bibi Trump, and Bibi and where that will lead us?
In some sense I write as the devil's advocate (how ironic) sensing the truths she outlines are universal, but not so temporal. thanks.
Fear:
The 2004 Campaign: The Former Vice President;
Gore Says Bush Betrayed the U.S. by Using 9/11 as a Reason for War in Iraq
New York Times, February 9, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20131206134410/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/09/us/2004-campaign-former-vice-president-gore-says-bush-betrayed-us-using-9-11-reason.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxGC8JaijI0
''He betrayed this country!'' Mr. Gore shouted into the microphone at a rally of Tennessee Democrats here in a stuffy hotel ballroom. ''He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place.''
The speech had several hundred Democrats roaring their approval for Mr. Gore, the party's 2000 standard-bearer."
And Fear:
"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people themselves which is essential to victory."
- FDR, 1933 Inaugural Address
Bearing Burden, Hardship, for Liberty:
"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."
- JFK, 1961 Inaugural Address
All the while US, UK and global leaders having just defeated totalitarianism that rode in on the back of ginned-up fear in Europe for purposes of Fascistic public-private partnership "efficiency" and Communistic all-one state "efficiency" yearning for efficiency so much they declared it:
'Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP), January 4th, 1958
https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0158uvic_1/mode/2up?view=theater
"Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage. “Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery...We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
Fear and Freedom do not go together. And for those who favor "efficiency" over freedom their favorite go-to is Fear. The only way free people ever willingly give up their Freedom.
And health, illness, disease, death, are the most fearful thing humans face. And as such are the best conduit for totalitarians who loath "inefficient freedom" to employ the "Logic of Disease Politics." as this book describes was employed in China under Mao:
Rural Health Care Delivery
Modern China from the Perspective of Disease Politics
Springer Nature, 2013
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-39982-4
That my Stack a few years ago explores:
https://freedomfox.substack.com/p/the-devious-use-of-infectious-disease
Fear of disease: How to fundamentally transform a nation of free nationalists into collectivist authoritarians. Saving just one grandma at a time. Or something like t hat.
Additionally, fear is a tool that the Neocons use to launch their evil -minded schemes. Every war, I mean every single war since the war of 1812, has used fear to launch the Neocons' schemes. Yes, even the two world wars that our government dragged us into, the tool of fear was used with perfection. America's only necessary war was in 1812; no wars have been necessary since. Staying out of unnecessary wars was one of the first principles of the American founding. Yet we deviated from that principle within a few decades. Now, Congress is never allowed to declare war; the Neocons detached that mechanism decades ago. Every conflict is a police action, allowing Neocons to wage war at any time.
Wars would not occur if society believed it wrong to kill another of our kind intentionally. They just wouldn't happen. The terrain wouldn't foster them. But look how easily we talk about war, we even have video games that hunt humans, and children play them. And nobody seems to mind. That's what enables war and evil.
"...fear is a tool that the PinkoCommies use to launch the PinkoCommies schemes...the PinkoCommies police actions, allowing PinkoCommies to wage war at any time."
Is what you sound like. Your "team" flag colors flying high in your comment. Your "team" hatred of team "Neocons" make you easy to keep you on your own team's totalitarian impulses. Pssst - the takeaway from John Leake's piece is that it's our tribal instincts that get us into trouble. Our own chosen "tribes" lead us into the greatest peril. We're pretty good at seeing our adversaries, the other "tribe" for what they are, as you've identified (correctly) "Neocons" as one of the tribes leading us into great peril. But we're weakest at identifying our own "tribe" does, following it into great peril, simply because we trust them more. And the powers that be know this. And wield our tribal team instincts against us expertly.
Best protection: Don't join teams.
Pink o commies. 😭😭😭😭 Livinen in the 1950s I see. Btw, every country has Neocons. They're just war lovers for various reasons.
A rhetorical device. Highlighting exactly how stupid YOU sound.
No, you sound like you're fixated on old tropes. Like above you cited something from the NYT. I didn't read it because anyone who knows anything wouldn't cite that rag.
Oh. Is it true? Guess where I heard the audio of Gore saying that when he said it, and for years after? Rush Limbaugh. I guess Rush was a purveyor of "rag" information?
Or, alternative hypothesis: you're just a ragging old hag? Who can kiss my ass.
The bloody dumb CU Next Tuesday Jew-hating Nazi's are out tonight.
Yeah. Just Neocons. No other authoritarian/totalitarian/monarchical/oligarchical/socialist/communist/fascist governing model or ideology. Just Neocons.
Sure, buddy. Smh.
Its not clear why this cultivated woman highlights that the word Satan(shatan) in Hebrew means...why associate jews/hebrews and satan. It' really unfortunate. Everyone knows what satan is. Why, again, connecti it to the Hebrew language.
You could ask her however do you realize that Zionists (if not Jews per se) do the most evil in the world? They run the money system for one thing, own the media mostly, and weapons companies. They were kicked out of over 100 countries. Perhaps she's touching on something we all ought to speak about but can't because it's "anti septic".
I think that she was just making a point that the word, Satan, does come from the Hebrew language. And she she says: it means opposer or adversary. That was a big part of her speech: How the adversary/opposer is always attempting to keep up in slavery, fear, etc.
Maybe she is hinting that Satan is working through the Jews. Maybe that's what she believes. I certainly have heard people, especially those who believe the Israelis were responsible for 911, say that before. So many theories floating around ... I don't know what to believe anymore.
The Jews are not the problem. The problem is they take advantage of our gullibility and they're good at it. We have to become more questioning and courageous to speak the uncomfortable truths. But we don't because we don't want to appear against a race when speaking out doesn't mean we are against them, it means we detect patterns.